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On 05/16/2010 04:39 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: |
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> On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 11:25 AM, walt <w41ter@×××××.com wrote: |
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> I just did the experiment of building xorg-server with the hal useflag *off*, and |
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> found that neither keyboard nor mouse worked until I restored the two InputDevice |
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> sections that I commented out when I switched to evdev+hal: |
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> Section "ServerLayout" |
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> Identifier "X.org Configured" |
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> Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 |
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> Option "AIGLX" "false" |
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> InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer" <------ restored these two lines |
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> InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" <------- |
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> EndSection |
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> Section "InputDevice" |
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> Identifier "Keyboard0" |
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> Driver "evdev" |
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> Option "Device" "/dev/input/event3" |
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> EndSection |
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> Section "InputDevice" |
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> Identifier "Mouse0" |
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> Driver "evdev" |
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> Option "Protocol" "auto" |
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> Option "Device" "/dev/input/event4" |
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> Option "Emulate3Buttons" "True" |
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> EndSection |
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> GENIUS. It worked! That which has been dead for 2 weeks is risen! |
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Bless you, my son ;) (I always thought the deadline is the third day.) |
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I could give you that information only after hours of frustrating research |
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and trial-and-error hacking, most of which I've already forgotten, so it's |
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a good thing that I commented those lines out instead of deleting them. |
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Happily for all of us, the xorg devs are well aware of the frustrating user |
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experience with all of this configuration nonsense, and are making very good |
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progress towards automating it. |
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